| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Fix a bunch of bad grammar in the docs:"<link>, which see for |
| Date: | 2007-05-16 20:11:11 |
| Message-ID: | 20070516201111.GH4582@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-16-05 at 20:49 +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
> > "which see" is an unusual formulation but it's actually pretty standard. You
> > see it a lot in older texts.
>
> Interesting, I've never run across it before. It certainly sounds
> awkward to me, but I can revert the change if people would like.
I don't care either way because the new wording seems OK too, but I as a
non-native speaker found the construct very natural and easy to
understand. It also maps into the latin q.v. verbatim.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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